Deals of the week - March 12 2012

March 12, 2012

Type of Deal	Value	Acquirer	Target	Adviser to acquirer (tax)	Adviser to target (tax)
Global Strategic Alliance	$1.32 billion	General Motors	PSA Peugeot Citroën	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	Bredin Prat
Acquisition	$1.3 billion	Molycorp	Neo Material Technologies	Jones Day / McCarthy Tetrault	Fogler, Rubinoff / McDonald Hopkins / Stikeman Elliott
Acquisition	610.7 million	LSE	LCH.Clearnet	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer / Sullivan & Cromwell	Clifford Chance
Acquisition	$463 million	Energy Capital / PPL Generation / GDF Suez International	AES Red Oak / AES Ironwood / AES Energia Cartagena	Latham & Watkins - David Raab, Kevin Brogan
Acquisition	$321 million	SingTel	Amobee	Fenwick & West - Michael Solomon, Natalie Pardo De Zela
Acquisition	$171 million	Legrand France	Numeric Power Systems	WongPartnership - Low Kah Keong, Teo Hsiao-Huey, Jeffrey Lim, Ameera Ashraf	Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co
Type of Deal	Value	Issuer/Borrower	Lead managers/arrangers	Adviser to issuer/borrower (tax)	Adviser to lead managers (tax)
Notes Offering	$2.75 billion	PepsiCo	Goldman Sachs / J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Avishai Shachar, Patrick Sigmon	Jones Day
Notes Offering	$800 million	Wyndham Worldwide	J.P. Morgan / Deutsche Bank / Goldman Sachs	Kirkland & Ellis	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Harry Ballan, Nessia Kushner
Fixed Rate Subordinated Notes Issue	$798.5 million	DBS Bank		Allen & Gledhill	WongPartnership - Hui Choon Yuen
Notes Offering	$600 million	Heinz	J.P. Morgan / Merrill Lynch / UBS	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Samuel Dimon, Adam Perry	Sullivan & Cromwell
Investment Grade Notes Offering	$500 million	Fifth Third Bancorp	Deutsche Bank / J.P. Morgan / Morgan Stanley	Graydon Head & Ritchey	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachael Kleinberg, Sarah Joy
Five Year Revolving Credit Facility	$462.6 million	Aurubis AG	Commerzbank / Deutsche Bank / Unicredit Bank	Hengeler Mueller	Clifford Chance
Follow-On Equity Offering	$370 million	Waste Connections	Morgan Stanley	Latham & Watkins	Davis Polk & Wardwell - Lucy Farr, Neil Barr, Gregory Hannibal, Johann Wagner
Initial Public Offering	$123.3 million	Yelp	Goldman Sachs / Citigroup / Jefferies & Co		Davis Polk & Wardwell - Rachel Kleinberg, Una Au

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